From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 5 7:31: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rip.psg.com (rip.psg.com [147.28.0.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D271714BD8 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:31:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from randy@psg.com) Received: from randy by rip.psg.com with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 11jlIP-0008BQ-00; Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 -0800 From: Randy Bush MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jim King Cc: FreeBSD Stable Subject: Re: easyboot far into disk References: <199911050450.UAA01405@dingo.cdrom.com> <4.2.0.58.19991105072616.00a3b128@mail.sstar.com> Message-Id: Date: Fri, 05 Nov 1999 07:28:57 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> i did flash a new bios, and it did install up there at 10-13g. it just >> won't boot. > I had a similar problem, on a newish Dell PC (less than a year old) with a > 16 GB drive. I had a 13 GB Win98 partition followed by a 3 GB FreeBSD > partition, and I was unable to boot FreeBSD. What I did: wipe out FreeBSD > partition; use Partition Magic 4.0 to move the Win98 partition to the end > of the disk; reinstall FreeBSD in the newly empty 3 GB partition at the > front of the disk. Now both FreeBSD and Win98 boot OK. hun?! what about the widely distributed belief that the win9x partition has to be the first partition on the disk? randy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message